herdsman
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Now at 31, he is the herdsman and co-manages the dairy farm alongside his father.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2021
Their secret leaked the first weekend in June when the other herdsman, Happy Mthabela, showed some of the stones to guests at a wedding.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2021
Farmers and herders once lived harmoniously on Nigeria’s bucolic central plateau, but when Amos Lenji, a farmer, caught a young herdsman grazing cattle in his cornfields this October, he feared for his life.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2018
The rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course is to add another animal to their herd, and then another, and so forth.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 6, 2018
Telemakhos and the herdsman scraped the packed earth floor with hoes, but made the women carry out all blood and mire.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
Or her Delhi architecture school days, when she was too broke for jewellery and wore "cow beads" - fat glass beads strung across cow horns, bought off herdsmen near the hostel.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
New study by ICTA-UAB and the University of Cádiz reveals that the first farmers and herdsmen settled in Andalusia collected and consumed shellfish throughout the year, especially in winter.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 15, 2024
Rio Tinto's mining of copper and gold in the Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia have also raised concerns with local herdsmen.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2023
Villagers had seen "strange herdsmen" setting up camp near the area in the days before the attacks began.
From Reuters ● Dec. 20, 2022
But they have little agility, tending to sloth when they reach full growth, and most Tasmanian herdsmen have learned with ease to avoid them.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
